PHOTO: AFP/EAST NEWS Workers prepare the Sambodrome - a stadium-like runway - for Brazil's annual extravagant four-day Carnival, in Rio de Janeiro in February 11, 2010. The performers catching most of the attention will be the lithe Brazilian dancing queens who lead each of the samba schools competing in the parades, especially the top-notch entries Sunday and Monday nights. AFP PHOTO/VANDERLEI ALMEIDA